Am I the only one noticing it about kbin's name?

Illecors, 8 months ago

It’s a play for unix filesystem’s layout - /sbin -> kbin. Can’t recall the post, but that was answered by Ernest himself.

Teppic, 8 months ago

There is even the folder icon as the logo to make this link clearer.

tiredofsametab, 7 months ago

ケビン is closer, which is just the transliteration of Kevin.

CarlsIII, 8 months ago

Kbin sounds like the Kbin islands holding company where I am a customer with a secret, illegal account.

Oh crap.

jeena, 8 months ago

kbin sounds a lot like karabin, which means rifle in Polish.

JustAWoopie, 8 months ago

Yeah ernest seems to be polish and the polish kbin instance is karab.in. Still it’s kind of a weird name for a link aggregator

Teppic, 8 months ago

Ernest, the kbin developer has addressed this:
https://kbin.social/m/fediverse/t/344/What-is-Kbin-Join-the-Fediverse#entry-comment-969

Spuddaccino, 8 months ago

I think it’s pretty safe to say that the two terms are unrelated, and that most people on a non-Japanese-speaking community would not make that same connection.